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As Captain Sir Frederic Seymour, in his regimental finery, he was simply irresistible. "A joke?" she repeated. "Do explain, I'm dying to know all about it." "It wasn't half as difficult a job as one might imagine, you know. Our censor chaps at home have got to be quite expert at reading letters, invisible ink and all that sort of thing.
I thought this strange, as I had locked my desk before I went out to meet Major Stapleton, and had never sent for it since my return; my servant, however, could tell me nothing about it, except that he found it as he brought it to me; but after a little time, he recollected that the doctor had asked for a pen and ink to write a prescription, and that the colonel had taken the keys to get him what he required.
But it is likely that the sombre satire of the pure and beautiful Jeanne-Marie Philipon touched the heart of Paris more than the shedding of tears and shrieking lamentations. The wife of Roland, led to the scaffold, faced with the stern certainty of death, asks with calm dignity for pen, ink, and paper, "so that she might write the strange thoughts that were rising in her."
A line had been drawn through this last word, and another word written above it; but the ink was so faded, the page so woolly and thin with use, that it was impossible to decipher the correction; perhaps it was "mother-wort," an herb Philly did not know; or it might be "mandrake"? It looked as much like one as the other, the writing was so blurred and dim.
With his well-filled pen case and ink horn, he went drawing out deeds up hill and down dale, from one insolvent wretch to another more insolvent still. Amid his atmosphere of pettifoggery, this rudimentary scholar, waging battle on life's acerbities, certainly paid no attention to the insect; at most, if he met it, he would crush it under foot.
'You have not generally found it so? Well, you have this time, and let it be a lesson to you; not that there is much comfort in that, for it is not likely you will ever have such another chance" exactly the idea that had occurred to Benson. Bring me a pen, somebody, and my cheque-book." The royal cheque-book, bound in red morocco, was brought in by eight pages, with ink and a pen.
And this journal, to me, with my queer cat-like affection for this old village, a perfect treasure and the interminable bundles of letters, sorted and arranged so neatly, with little abstracts of their contents in red ink, in her own firm thin hand upon the covers, from all and to all manner of persons for the industrious lady made fair copies of all the letters she wrote formed for many years my occasional, and always pleasant winter night's reading.
He is slightly wounded through the shoulder. I tell you truth, it is in no wise dangerous. I am unhurt. The hand travelling across the sheet of paper paused, and Rand sat for a moment motionless, looking straight before him; then, with an indrawn breath, he dipped the quill again into the ink and wrote on, He fired into the air. Thine, Lewis.
The ink on the $44,000,000 had barely dried, before he used part of the proceeds to buy a controlling interest in the Lake Shore Railroad, a competing line. Then rapidly, by the same methods, he took hold of the Canada Southern and Michigan Central. The commercial interests looked on dumfounded.
But if ever you feel that you want a real thrill a touch of the old satisfying newspaper feeling a sniff of wet ink the music of some editorial cussing why come up here and I'll give you the hottest assignment on my list, if I have to take it away from Deming's very notebook." When I had thanked him I crossed the hall and tried the door of the sporting editor's room.
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